[Asis-l] Collaborative information seeking lab experiments dataset

[Chirag Shah]

Hello,

We are pleased to announce the availability of Collaborative Information Seeking Lab Experiments Dataset. The data is from a set of lab experiments conducted by Chirag Shah and Roberto Gonzalez-Ibanez at Rutgers University in 2010-2011. It contains interaction logs (queries, page visits, relevance judgments, and snippets collected) by a total of 160 participants in 80 teams, with each team working on an exploratory search task for about 30 minutes in a controlled lab setting. The data was collected using Coagmento (http://coagmento.org/ <http://coagmento.org/>).

The dataset can be downloaded from http://infoseeking.org/data.php#cis2010 <http://infoseeking.org/data.php#cis2010>

Following is a small selection of papers that use this data that one can cite.
Shah, C., and Gonzalez-Ibanez, R. (2011). Evaluating the synergic effect of collaboration in information seeking. Proceedings of ACM SIGIR, pp. 913-922. Beijing, China.
Shah, C., Gonzalez-Ibanez, R. (2012). Spatial context in collaborative information seeking. Journal of Information Science (JIS). 38(4), 333-349.
Gonzalez-Ibanez, R., Haseki, M., and Shah, C. (2013). Let's search together, but not too close! An analysis of communication and performance in collaborative information seeking. Information Processing & Management, 49(5), 1165-1179.
Note that this dataset is also being used for the Second International Workshop on the Evaluation on Collaborative Information Seeking and Retrieval (ECol) to be held at the ACM CHIIR 2017 conference in Oslo, Norway on March 11, 2017. More details are here: https://www.irit.fr/ECol2017/ <https://www.irit.fr/ECol2017/>.

We hope this data, which took months to collect, would be a useful resource to researchers working in the fields of interactive IR, as well as social/collaborative search.


Best,
Chirag Shah, PhD
Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science, Rutgers University
Director, InfoSeeking Lab (http://infoseeking.org)
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags